Fisher v. United States Middle District of TN

Filing 3

ORDER: The petitioner must submit a cashiers check or money order in the amount of $5.00, payable to Clerk, U.S. District Court, within 30 DAYS of the date this order is entered. If the petitioner cannot afford to pay the $5.00 filing fe e, he may instead submit a properly supported application to proceed in forma pauperis. Signed by District Judge Aleta A. Trauger on 9/10/2014. (xc: Pro se party by regular and certified mail.) (DOCKET TEXT SUMMARY ONLY-ATTORNEYS MUST OPEN THE PDF AND READ THE ORDER.) (ds)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
NASHVILLE DIVISION

JOHN FISHER,
Petitioner,
v.
UNITED STATES MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TN.,
Respondent.

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Case No. 3:14-cv-01799
Judge Trauger

ORDER
John Winston Fisher, Jr., a federal pretrial detainee currently held at the Robertson County Detention
Center in Springfield, Tennessee, has filed a petition for the writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. He
attempted to submit the $5.00 filing fee with his petition, but the payment was returned to him because it was
in the form of a personal check, which the Clerk’s Office cannot accept. In order for the court to consider the
petition, the petitioner must submit a cashier’s check or money order in the amount of $5.00, payable to “Clerk,
U.S. District Court,” within 30 DAYS of the date this order is entered. If the petitioner cannot afford to pay the
$5.00 filing fee, he may instead submit a properly supported application to proceed in forma pauperis. The
plaintiff=s submission (whether he pays the fee or submits an application to proceed in forma pauperis) must
state the docket number of this matter on its face (No. 3:14-cv-01799).
The petitioner is forewarned that, should he fail to resubmit the filing fee or to file an application to
proceed in forma pauperis in this action within 30 days, his petition may be denied and this action dismissed
for failure to comply with the instructions of the Court and for want of prosecution. Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b).
It is so ORDERED.

ALETA A. TRAUGER
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE